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Æmiliani, St. Jerome

, a nobleman, born at Venice
in 1481, carried arms in his youth, and was taken prisoner.
On his release he made a vow to dedicate his life to the
care of orphans, and accordingly collected a considerable
number of them in a house, where they were educated in
virtue and industry. This laid the foundation of the regular clerks of St. Maieul, who are also called the fathers of
| Somasquo, from the place where he first established their
community. They were afterwards successively confirmed by the popes PaulIII. and Pius IV. Their chief occupation was to instruct young persons in the principles of
the Christian religion, and particularly orphans. He appears to have been a man of a most humane disposition;
and in 1528, when plague and famine raged in Italy, he
sold even his furniture to assist the poor. He died in 1537,
and was admitted into the number of saints by BenedictXIV. Andreas Stella, the general of the Somasques, wrote
his life. 1

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